Flight testing and aerospace

Flight testing and aerospace

Proven and efficient: imc solutions for flight testing and aerospace

In the aviation and aerospace industry, type certification procedures for aircrafts have been the driving force for testing. The challenge is now to meet the demands of efficient testing to comply with these high standards.

Measurement and control systems developed by imc have proven to be valued assets among major aircraft manufacturers. There are three device series of imc that are very attractive in that field, offering a high degree of flexibility for hardware setup: the imc C-SERIES, the imc CRONOScompact and the imc CRONOSflex. These can operate either in stand-alone mode or in combined configurations even of mixed types, networked and in conjunction with a PC, to perform tests that encompass structural testing, flight testing, production certification testing (ATP = acceptance test procedure). The internal system components (i.e. sensor and signal conditioning front ends, data logger, storage and signal analysis functions), are uniform for all three systems. The test data can be correlated, analyzed and reported with the same software tools.

The imc hardware and software can also easily integrate into existing test and measurement environments or control systems, providing synchronized data in a robust platform. These data can also be processed in real-time using an optional “on-line co-processor” onboard the data acquisition device. This platform (imc Online FAMOS) offers an extensive set of calculation and analysis functions, providing immediate feedback and results to the test operator, engineers and/or the associated load control or PLC control systems. Limits can be applied to any of these “real-time” data, and provide immediate response to critical conditions. ⇒ read more

In practice

Flight testing

With the increasing complexity of the latest types of aircraft, the requirements placed on today’s flight testing systems have also increased. A wide variety of signals and sensors, as well as high channel counts from digital sources and aircraft buses, are acquired over multiple channels, monitored online and, ideally, synchronously stored in a common data sink.